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Confirmed: Earth's Oldest Rock In Australia 74

Posted by timothy on Monday February 24, 2014 @01:57AM from the isn't-that-what-got-men-at-work-sued? dept.

SpamSlapper writes "Australia's ABC Science reports that ancient zircon crystals discovered in Western Australia have been positively dated to 4.374 billion years, confirming their place as the oldest rock ever found on Earth, according to a new study. The research reported in the journal Nature Geoscience, means Earth began forming a crust far sooner than previously thought, following the giant impact event which created the Earth-Moon system 4.5 billion years ago."

Comment Re:Touchpad vs. iPad (Score 1) 131

by Xurixis on Thursday September 29, 2011 @12:25PM (#37555222) Attached to: HP Touch Pad Still Popular<nobr> <wbr></nobr>... With HP Employees

You need to do yourself a favor and shell out $7 for Kalemsoft Media Player on the HP app store. It will not only give your Touchpad the VLC-esque ability to play any video format you load on it, but there is a desktop client that dynamically re-encodes your local media files and streams them to the TP remotely. I've got a Backblaze box with 720p videos on it and I can watch them anywhere that there's wifi, its basically like having your own private netflix service without any content limitations. As long as you have ~2mb upload on your home internet connection there are no pauses for buffering, even at max quality.

Homemade Robot Patrols Atlanta Streets 324

Posted by Soulskill on Friday March 07, 2008 @05:40PM from the serving-justice-and-delicious-hot-dogs dept.

Josh Fink brings news of an Atlanta resident who has created a remote control robot to scare off criminals during the night. Rufus Terrill, an engineer, uses it to patrol the streets and encourage drug dealers and other shady characters to move on. Local residents call it his "Robocop." From CNN: "It's a barbecue smoker mounted on a three-wheeled scooter, and armed with an infrared camera, spotlight, loudspeaker and aluminum water cannon that shoots a stream of icy water about 20 feet. Operated by remote control, the robot spotlights trespassers on property down the street from his bar, O'Terrill's. Using a walkie-talkie, Terrill belts out through the robot's loudspeaker, 'That's private property. You guys need to get out of here.'"

Comment Re:Does it have the horsepower for Ogg? (Score 1) 401

by Xurixis on Thursday August 24, 2006 @03:20AM (#15968049) Attached to: SanDisk Releases New iPod rival

Actually the Sansa players shipped in the US are only set to MTP by default. This is easily remedied by changing the setting to UMS in the devices' options menu. Of course it is buried fairly deeply in the interface and to a potential ipod convert it will be irritating to be unable to get USB device functionality out of the box. Many of my friends/family use their ipods for portable storage, even those that aren't the most tech saavy.

Not a great call by Sandisk, but also not a dealbreaker. It's easy enough to just change the shipping defaults if enough people complain.

I'm definitely looking forward to re-gifting my e260 and then upgrading to the new e280 model.
8gigs + 2gig micro sd expansion card = yummy ;)

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